Idiom: No Love Lost

Love poems, how trite they become.
Their hackneyed themes we want to scream.
We purposely shy away from
That genre, teeming so it seems
With grandiloquent, large supplies
Of conjured words with empty rings
Of cheating hearts and love that dies.
Ad nauseam is all it brings.
We wish just once that we could read
Where love’s expressed differently:
Brand new verses that supersede
Love’s banal themes in poetry.
Love-lost poems are sickening
But most of all they are boring.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Gorelick Avatar
November 14, 2010 at 7:59 AM
You are so right -on...they do serve a purpose for the author though I think..able to get all those feelings "out"..Ive written some clankers myself. lol.BG
Onclaud Avatar
November 14, 2010 at 7:28 AM
clever piece and a greeat one at that, albert.. warmest,nette
Falotico Avatar
November 14, 2010 at 6:18 AM
A different aproach to the same ole same ole...
Mehta Avatar
November 14, 2010 at 6:13 AM
Nice thoughts you have penned love-lost poems that are sickening and boring, Albert
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